Members of the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge (ISUPK) conducted weekly protests outside of the Shops at Liberty Place in Center City. The group is based in Upper Darby and part of the Black Hebrew Israelites, a religious movement which believes African Americans are descendants of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

The group has been labeled as “extremist” and “black supremacists” by several organizations, including civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center.

The protests angered shop owners so they filed a lawsuit to try and stop them.

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Booksmith presents a virtual event with Minna Salami for her new book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, hosted on June 8, 2020.

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Nada Mustafa Ali will present on “Women, Gender, and Sudan’s 2018/2019 Uprising,” drawing on her ongoing research from a gender and a feminist perspective. Women played key roles in Sudan’s 2018/2019 uprising which unseated Sudan's former president Omar al-Bashir and outlawed the ruling National Congress Party. Gender inequality and violations of the rights of women in different parts of Sudan was a key feature of the regime's policies. Nada Mustafa Ali uses a gender and a feminist perspective in contextualizing and analyzing the uprising as well as Sudan’s transition. What does change mean for Sudan’s diverse men and women? What role are women’s organizations and movements playing in the transition? How can the people of Sudan learn from the country’s history of transitions and short democratic periods? And what can they learn from the “Arab Spring” and from post-conflict experiences in various African countries? Professor Ali will draw on fieldwork in Sudan as well as on digital ethnographic research on social media, social movements, and social change that she started in 2014.

Khalid Mustafa Medani (’87), will present a lecture on an often-neglected element associated with the rise (and fall) of authoritarianism, the emergence of Islamic political movements, and the local dynamics of ethnic conflict in the Middle East and Africa: the role of informal commercial and social networks. Specifically, and drawing on many years of research conducted in Sudan, Egypt, Somalia and Morocco, Dr. Medani will discuss the similar (as well as contrasting) ways in which informal networks have underpinned the historic popular protests that ended 30 long years of authoritarian rule in Sudan; provided the context for the emergency of militant Islamist activism in Egypt and Morocco; and greatly influenced the dynamics of ethnic politics in Somalia. Professor Medani’s portion aims to initiate an open and critical discussion pertaining to the prospects and obstacles for popular mobilization and democratization in the region; illuminate some of the factors associated with the question of why a small minority of youth join extremist groups; and question the securitization of informal networks reflected in the ongoing global war on “terrorist” finance.

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A primeira mesa do encontro internacional Nós Tantas Outras aconteceu no Sesc Itaquera, e teve a cientista social Nubia Regina Moreira, a socióloga americana Patricia Hill Collins e mediação da historiadora Dulci Lima. Juntas, elas trouxeram a trajetória e os desafios para o fazer e para o pensar das feministas negras contemporâneas.

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During the exhibition and programming for Queen Nefertari’s Egypt, audiences and scholars continue to raise questions around the roles of women’s power and influence within ancient Egyptian forms of governance. Join us for a closing panel discussion that continues to tease out some of the details around Queen Nefertari’s leadership, while also taking into consideration a wider history of women’s influence within pre-colonial Africa. Drawing on their individual bodies of work and research, Dr. Solange Ashby (President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA), Dr. Bright Alozie (Assistant Professor of Black Studies at Portland State University) and Debora Heard (Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, specializing in Nubian Archaeology at the University of Chicago) will continue to think through varying forms of women’s leadership in ancient African Civilizations.

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Often the same adversaries oppose women’s, anti-racist, environmental, peace, human rights, indigenous, sexual liberation, consumer, children’s rights and other such movements. Yet these movements often remain separate and don’t see their organic linkage. Gloria Steinem, the iconic leader who continues to inhabit the leading edges of progressive social change, traces the historical, political and practical reasons movements are linked — not ranked — and why our success depends on it. Introduction by Nina Simons, Bioneers President and Co-Founder.

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The controversial leader of the Nation of Islam is downtown, leading to a large presence outside the Kent County courthouse. (Aug. 23, 2017)

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FGM, or cutting, as it is also sometimes known, is the removal of the external female genitalia. The procedure has no health benefits, but can cause great harm and serious health complications for those who undergo the procedure. Besides causing severe pain, the practice has immediate and long-term consequences for the health of women and girls, including complications during childbirth, which could endanger the lives of both mother and child.

Through this animation, Al Jazeera takes the reader on a journey to understand how the cycle of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) continues: following a girl who undergoes FGM as she grows up and becomes a mother and chooses, like her mother and grandmother before her, to perform FGM on her baby daughter.

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Featuring Mona Eltahawy, American-Egyptian journalist, speaker, and author of "The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls"

Speaker:
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning columnist and international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. She is based in Cairo and New York City. She is the author of "The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls," released September 2019.

Discussant:
Hala Aldosari is a Saudi scholar and activist whose work focuses on women’s rights in Arab societies, violence against women, and the “guardianship” system in Saudi Arabia. She joined the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) as its 2019 Robert E Wilhelm Fellow.

Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS), MIT Press Bookstore, MIT History

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Event held on Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm
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January 26, 2012 - Stanford welcomes Gloria Steinem, co-founder and first editor of Ms. Magazine, in celebration of Ms.'s 40th anniversary. Steinem reflected on Ms. Magazine's role over forty years and looked ahead to what feminism may mean for future generations.

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A group in Egypt is holding workshops to encourage young Aswan women to learn about feminism.
"A Free Woman from the South" is a women's advocacy group inspired by the revolution.
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Ayat Osman, a 26-year-old woman from the Upper Egyptian province of Aswan, walks towards her office.
It's the hub of the women's advocacy group she co-founded in her hometown in 2012.
Now she's launching a five-day workshop for young Aswan women to learn about feminism.
Inspired by the revolution, Osman and her friend Nagham Ali found themselves compelled to form a feminist organisation in Aswan.
Their aim was to reverse the tribal and patriarchal nature of their environment by changing women's attitudes about themselves.
Osman says she believes women are more likely to listen to them if the message comes from within:
"As women from the south, we are the most capable of talking about our complex tribal environment. Tribes here would not listen to anyone coming from the outside. So we are telling them we are southern women and we belong to your society and want to say that you have gender-based violence."
Since it was founded, the group has been trying to raise awareness for gender-based violence.
According to Egypt's 2015 Health Issues Survey, Upper Egypt has the highest rate of female genital mutilation in the country.
According to EHIS, 92 percent of women there are circumcised.
Figures from CAPMS, Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, also show that southern women are more prone to domestic violence.
According to official figures, at least 30 percent of married Egyptian women were subjected to spousal abuse in 2014.
Although "A Free Woman from the South" seeks to develop a local discourse they also reach out to Cairo feminists for support.
At their workshop they invite speakers from the capital to talk to their peers about the history of the feminist movement and to deconstruct a lot of gender-based dogma.
Osman believes that Upper Egyptian women have more issues to deal with that their peers in the North.
"In general all women have the same concerns, but women in Upper Egypt still face hurdles which their peers in Cairo might have already overcome," she says.
"Women here still cannot choose their husbands. They cannot interfere with the circumcision of their daughters. They cannot inherit their parents' properties. They cannot even study or work away from their hometown."
The Aswan feminists understand that it will take a long time to reverse their society's patriarchal nature - so they are using their workshops to produce vanguard feminists in the south.
"We will consider it an achievement if we end up, after this workshop, convincing ten young women that they have all the right to make choices, to live the way they want, rather than the way society wants them to and to study whatever they like. We want to make sure that at least these girls will not oppress others the way they have been," says Nagham Ali, co-founder of "A Free Woman from the South".
Alaa Mohamed, a 22-year-old student from Aswan University's medical school, says the workshop has helped prepare her to deal with future female subjugation:
"We, women, face a lot of violence, discrimination and stigma for the mere fact that we are females," she says
"Feminism helps us understand why we face these issues and how to react."

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March 8 marks International Women's Day around the world, seeking to end gender discrimination, violence and abuse. We start the show by looking at the day's roots in socialism, and what it means for the movement for reproductive justice in the United States. Our guest is Nancy Krieger, renowned professor of social epidemiology at Harvard University's School of Public Health and director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health. She's also co-founder and chair of the Spirit of 1848 Caucus in the American Public Health Association, which links social justice and public health. International Women's Day has always been a struggle for "the conditions in which people can thrive," says Krieger.

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Feminism is in a constant state of evolution - so, where will it go next? Hear from some of the world's most dynamic young activists and thinkers about what to expect in 2019 and beyond. Featuring Tunisian activist Aya Chebbi, British cultural commentator Ayishat Akanbi, Indigenous artist and activist Aretha Brown with Saturday Paper editor Maddison Connaughton, this panel considers where feminism might head next.
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This webinar will explore the intersections of feminist and anti-racist activism in the Middle East and North Africa. Professor Nadje Al-Ali will be in conversation with Maie Panaga, Menna Agha, Nabila Moussaoui, and Khawla Ksiki - four prominent feminist activists and researchers who are engaged in anti-racist campaigns and politics. We will be exploring the question of racism within the Middle East and North Africa and the way feminist movements in the region have historically often been complicit in maintaining and reproducing racism. What if anything has changed recently? How do younger generations of feminist and queer activists approach racism? How has feminism changed in the region? Has the global Black Lives Matter movement had an impact on anti-racist struggles in the Middle East and North Africa?

This webinar is part of a series of events focusing on gender and feminist issues on the one hand, as well as a series of events around anti-Black racism in the Middle East and its diasporas.


PANELISTS
Mai Panaga Babker is a Sudanese woman based in Cairo. Mai co-runs the editorial section at the Cairo-based Ikhtyar Feminist Collective. In 2014, Mai co-established Ikhtyar, which is devoted to feminist knowledge production in Arabic, covering areas of feminism, sexuality, reproductive health and rights, feminist Internet, and women’s street performances.

Menna Agha is an architect and researcher, a 2019/2020 spatial justice fellow, and was visiting assistant professor at the University of Oregon. Currently, she is coordinating a spatial justice agenda at the Flemish Architecture Institute. Menna holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp, and an MA from Köln international School of Design. Menna Agha is third-generation displaced Egyptian Nubian which informs her research interests in race, gender, space, and territory. Among her publications: “Nubia still exists: the Utility of the Nostalgic Space”, “The non-work of the unimportant: The shadow economy of Nubian women in displacement villages”

Nabila Moussaoui holds a PhD in Anthropology and works on migration issues South of the Mediterranean. Her thesis is entitled: "Underground Activities at the Algerian-Moroccan Borders." In this thesis, she reports on the reality of illegal migration known as harga which affects the Algerian and Moroccan youth, as well as the border trade (known as trabendo) that exists between the two countries and which extends to Southern Europe. Dr Moussaoui has a second thesis in progress at the University of Jean Jaurès in Toulouse, France, in which she investigates competency in migration. She is currently a lecturer, authorized to direct research, at the University of Oran 2 in Algeria.


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Because of a poor internet connection, we were unable to videorecord her presentation.


Khawla Ksiksi is a Tunisian jurist, advocate for environmental justice and activist who is engaged in feminist, anti-racist, intersectional activism. After the Tunisian Revolution (2011), she joined Mnemty (My Dream), an association that fights against all forms of discrimination, especially racial, and promotes unity, peace, and justice. She is a human rights activist and member of a radical feminist movement called Falgatna (We’re Fed Up), which defends women’s rights and lobbies against sexual violence in Tunisia. In January 2020 she co-founded the collective “Voices of Black Tunisian Women” which offers them a safe space for self-expression. It is the first initiative that addresses issues affecting Black women, gives voice to their experiences and promotes research about their social conditions.

HOST
Nadje Al-Ali, Director, Center for Middle East Studies.

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Comic book creators Mark Poulton (Graveyard Shift), Chris Graves (Writhe & Payne), Enrico Botta (Black Demon) and Dexter Weeks (Koni Waves) discuss a new horror movie each week that is free to stream on Tubi. This week they discuss My Bloody Valentine!